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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Records a major critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives - that is, politics. This book focuses on the nineteenth-century novel, and addresses a range of writers as well, in a textured, contoured, discontinuous history. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
3rd Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231799
ISBN
9780823231799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Hardback. Records a major critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives - that is, politics. This book focuses on the nineteenth-century novel, and addresses a range of writers as well, in a textured, contoured, discontinuous history. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231782
ISBN
9780823231782
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.13

Hardcover. This text aims to redefine the place of the Wordsworthian imagination in a cultural moment often classified as the transition from "Romantic" to "Victorian". Num Pages: 252 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 555.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729710
ISBN
9780804729710
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 257.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801486388
ISBN
9780801486388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.23

Paperback. Black literary production during the 19th century was dominated by the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. This book examines how those authors bore witness to the experiences they described. Num Pages: 207 pages, 1 halftone (about the author). BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814756058
ISBN
9780814756058
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.31

Hardback. This book uses the writings of T. S. Eliot and Walter Benjamin to examine the fraught relationship between literary and historical form during the modernist period. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 238 x 21. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804799041
ISBN
9780804799041
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.98

Hardback. More radically than had any contemporary English author's work, Thomas Gray's two Pindaric odes of 1757, effectively challenged readers' powers of comprehension, posing problems of reference as well as distinctly Pindaric problems of coherence. Solving those problems calls for knowledge not widely had then, now, or in between. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611494143
ISBN
9781611494143
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.38

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226091327
ISBN
9780226091327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.29

Hardback. Series: Reading Women Writing. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801431326
ISBN
9780801431326
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.27

Paperback. Series: Reading Women Writing. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Cornell University Press Ithaca
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801482557
ISBN
9780801482557
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.34

Hardcover.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
242
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184820
ISBN
9781859184820
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 31.26

Hardback. Reveals the role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. This book shows how the ideological and psychological dynamics of empire, particularly its reorganization of class identities at the colonial periphery, depended on figurations of masochism. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691127125
ISBN
9780691127125
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.32
€ 55.14

Paperback. An interdisciplinary book which established itself as a seminal text in its field. Num Pages: 296 pages, 42 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415438179
ISBN
9780415438179
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.03

Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611483352
ISBN
9781611483352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 9 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780816670994
ISBN
9780816670994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Hardback. Why do we hate Milton's God? The author reengages with a perennial problem in Milton studies, one whose genealogy dates back at least to the Romantics, but which finds its most cogent modern expression in William Empson's revulsion at Milton's God and Stanley Fish's defense. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691044873
ISBN
9780691044873
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.01
€ 109.21

Paperback. "The Immortal Memory" is the centrepiece of the traditional Burns Supper, and is important for Burns lovers all over the world. This book on Burns is devoted to his "Immortal Memory". The contributors, while dealing with the same man, appear to see him differently, but they have in common love and admiration for the man and his work. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 211 x 33. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905222483
ISBN
9781905222483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.35

Paperback. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847688210
ISBN
9780847688210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349352319
ISBN
9781349352319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.25
€ 13.40

Hardback. This volume examines novels, short stories, and memoirs that portray the various aspects of the immigrant experience. It also explores how such works depict the causes of immigration, the immigrants' journey, their arrival, the process of adjustment, and the effect of immigration on family structures and ties. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 174 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810860568
ISBN
9780810860568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.03

Hardback. Answers the question, 'how does one read an author', by undertaking an experiment in critical biography. This book provides an original way of reading, one that captures with variety and subtlety the personality that exists only in Woolf's works and in the minds of her readers. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691138121
ISBN
9780691138121
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 356 pages, Fr.71ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 679.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226042299
ISBN
9780226042299
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.06

Hardback. The thirteen essays in Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture examine visual and textual representations of Jews before 1066. Editor(s): Zacher, Samantha. Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 28. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ABA; 3F; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442646674
ISBN
9781442646674
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.26

Hardback. Reading portraiture as a national rhetoric during the romantic period, Imagining the Gallery reveals a pervasive cultural discourse that reflects and propels sociopolitical shifts taking place in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Num Pages: 272 pages, 36 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804751247
ISBN
9780804751247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.95

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